When I was reading this book, a friend asked me what it was about.  I didn’t really know how to respond, because this book is insane.  Eventually I said something like, “It’s about humans…and other creatures that are loosely based on various mythologies?…in a parallel-world steampunk magic police state.  And also they are fighting these crazy dream-sucking moths.” And that’s true!  But there are also mob bosses, red light districts, cactus-people, water-magicians, sentient machines, scientists in secret labs, and, my favorite character, a giant multidimensional […]